1. Software Engineer
Gayan Dhanushka
Driving Innovation for
Application Management with
WSO2 App Factory

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About the Presenter
๏ Gayan Dhanushka
๏ Software Engineer
๏ Graduated from University of
Moratuwa
๏ email - gayand@wso2.com

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About WSO2
๏ Global enterprise, founded in
2005 by acknowledged leaders in
XML, web services technologies,
standards and open source
๏ Provides only open source
platform-as-a-service for private,
public and hybrid cloud
deployments
๏ All WSO2 products are 100% open
source and released under the
Apache License Version 2.0.
๏ Is an Active Member of OASIS,
Cloud Security Alliance, OSGi
Alliance, AMQP Working Group,
OpenID Foundation and W3C.
๏ Driven by Innovation
๏ Launched first open source API
Management solution in 2012
๏ Launched App Factory in 2Q 2013
๏ Launched Enterprise Store and
first open source Mobile solution
in 4Q 2013

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What WSO2 delivers

5. Factors hindering innovative application development
IT and Infrastructure
● Poor Agility
● Lack of continuous integration/build and
DevOps
● Use of wrong tool stacks and
dependencies
e.g. Which library version to use?
● No consistency
External
● Too complex for 3rd party developers
● Hard to access APIs infrastructure
● No App Store/ No API Store.
Governance
● Costly compliance with regulations.
( HIPAA, SOX etc)
● Governance is manual hence costly and
inconsistent
● Management have no insight into
development
Environments
● Hard to create and maintain
environments

6. A platform that supports application development from cradle
to grave
What is the solution?

7. A platform that supports application development from cradle
to grave
What is the solution?

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WSO2 App Factory

9. Enterprise
Apps
Cloud based development
● Collaborate
● Create
● Develop
● Deploy and host
Platform
● Shared
● Elastic
● Multi-tenant
● Self-service
● PaaS
Utilizing
● APIS
● Tools
● Infrastructure
Attributes which drives innovation in WSO2 App Factory

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The role of WSO2 App Factory in
Education sector

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Using App Factory in a University
๏ Create research oriented applications
๏ Building a platform to host research and fun applications
๏ Manage programming assignments/course works
๏ Promote reuse with API and APP store

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Create research oriented applications
๏ Demonstrate research outcomes
๏ Testing research outcomes
๏ Analyze research outcomes

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Building a platform to host research and fun applications

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Innovative applications

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Manage programming course work

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Monitoring the progress using dashboards

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Promoting reuse through API and APP store
๏ Significant in driving innovation
๏ Enables subscriptions to internal and external APIs
๏ Promotes code and component reuse
๏ A repository of applications

18. *
Demo

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Attributes which strengthen the IT Infrastructure of a
University
๏ Multi-tenancy - Different departments/courses can be isolated
๏ Shared - Many people can engage simultaneously
๏ Elasticity - Simultaneous engagement works seamlessly with self-
scaling WSO2 Private PaaS
๏ Built In infrastructure - time and cost economical
๏ Multiple project teams - Multiple projects with multiple people
working simultaneously
๏ Collaborative development
๏ Monitoring - track the application portfolio, quality, velocity and
efficiency

20. Overall Benefits
๏ Productivity and Innovation
๏ Enterprise Agility
๏ Governance
๏ Monitoring

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Questions?

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New Features
๏ Private Paas Integration
๏ Multi Tenancy Support
๏ Application Creation Using an Uploadable Artifact
๏ Private Space for Developers - Forked repositories
๏ Notification Wall
๏ Executive Dashboards

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Coming Up . . . . .
๏ MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) Integration
๏ BYOAT - Bring Your Own App Type

24. *
Thank You!

25. **
More Information !
๏ http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory/
๏ https://docs.wso2.
com/display/AF200/WSO2+App+Factory+Documentatio
n
๏ https://cloud.wso2.com/

26. **
Business Model

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